Monday, November 19, 2012

AS SEEN ON TV: LT. TRAGG (RECASTAWAY)


LIEUTENANT ARTHUR TRAGG

AS SEEN IN:
'The New Perry Mason'

CREATED BY:
Earle Stanley Gardner

PORTRAYED BY:
Dane Clark

TV STATUS:
Recastaway

TV DIMENSION:
An updated Toobworld
Possibly an evil dimension*


From "The Perry Mason TV Show Book"
The most famous of the three policemen regularly featured on the Mason series was the wry, dry-witted Lieutenant Arthur Tragg. Although not as prominent, Tragg was in reality an even bigger loser than his boss, Hamilton Burger. After all, whereas Burger was guilty only of losing every case he brought to court against Perry Mason, Traggand his later counterpartswas guilty of making all those false arrests.


From Sleuth Noir:
Lt Arthur Tragg is a... detective lieutenant from the Los Angeles Police Department. He worked very closely for many years with Hamilton Burger, a Los Angeles district attorney who always lost his cases when he faced Perry Mason. Lt Tragg spent years observing the methodology of Mason and his associate Paul Drake, and was particularly impressed with Mason's ability to handle difficult witnesses with tough questioning, and Drake's ability to make deductions from crime scene evidence.


BCnU!

*Well, it would have to be an evil dimension, wouldn't it? To bring the show back with all new actors a year after the original series ended its lengthy run, showing no respect to the audience's love for those characters?

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